Re: OT: Chinese (& the Pearl Drink Invasion)

I always said that drinking pearl milk tea was like
drinking eye-ball tea.  Really grossed my students
out!

Adam

--- "Douglas Koller, Latin & French"
<latinfrench@...> wrote:
> Hanuman, Monkey King, who must be groovin' that it's
> his year, writes:
>
>
> >  >What is Durian Pearl Drink?
> >
> >     Durian fruit
>
> We (translation: they) have a saying: It's like
> eating ice-cream in
> an outhouse.
>
> >      Pearl drinks - of many more "palatable"
> flavours besides Durian - are
> >very very popular in Chinatowns nowadays...and
> spreadin' to shopping
> >malls near
> >you...
>
> Spare me the pearls. Straws that look and feel like
> you're gonna
> shoot blow darts. Gnarly texture. There was an
> episode of "The View"
> a couple of years back, where Lisa Ling was
> describing that pearl
> drinks were now all the rage on the West Coast. Her
> colleagues tried
> them and made exactly the same
> "what-if-your-face-froze-like-that"
> expression that I did when I first tried one. It's a
> cultural thing.
>
> >     On the other shoe, many South East Asians
> can't see what is so freeakin'
> >great about tea with [dairy] milk or what is the
> big deal with cream crackers
> >or artichokes or caviar...
>
> Or sauerkraut. I can clear a room of Orientals in no
> time flat! Bleu
> cheese anyone?
>
> Your sigs were totally kewl this time out, dewd.
> Gong hei faat choi!
>
> Kou this time out, dewd. Gong hei faat choi!
>
> Kou

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